Turning Point responds to Public Health England report ‘Drug treatment in England 2012-13’

News item posted: 19 June 2017

In response to the annual report, Drug treatment in England
2012-13, released by Public Health England today, Selina Douglas,
Managing Director for Substance Misuse and Offending at Turning
Point said;

"It is good to see that the overall number of people in
treatment continued to fall in 2012 and 2013, and as we're seeing
in our services across the country, so has the number of people
starting treatment for heroin and crack cocaine.

However, we need to remember that the substance misuse field is
not static. While the sector has certainly become more successful
in engaging individuals' with more traditional opiate based issues
such as heroin abuse, we must not ignore the fact that it is not
uncommon for an individual who has overcome their dependency on
heroin to substitute their addiction with alcohol.

With this in mind Turning Point works to ensure we deliver a
rounded package of care. We cannot simply discharge people when
they are free of class A drugs but instead we must consider their
wider addiction, health and social care needs in order to see
continued and sustained recovery."